The Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakidou announced on her arrival at the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg that she is to sign an agreement later on Tuesday to purchase almost 110.000 vaccines for the treatment of smallpox outbreaks[/B] in monkeys[/B] in Europe.
"Today I will sign an agreement to purchase approximately 110,000 monkey smallpox vaccines to enable Member States to be supplied, with the first deliveries to start in late June," Kyriakidou said.
The Commissioner explained that there are currently about 900 cases of monkey eulogy in the European Union and 1,400 worldwide.
As Kyriakidou explained, this is the first time that the EU is buying vaccines with European funds. This, she continued, underlines the importance of having structures in place to deal with health emergencies.
According to an official statement, the agreement was reached between the Commission's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) and Bavarian Nordic for the purchase of 109 vaccines.900 doses of the third-generation vaccine.
The EU will proceed with the supply of vaccines to the Member States that need them (as well as Norway and Iceland) according to the increase in the number of cases.
The vaccines are purchased through the budget of the EU's EU4Health programme.
As noted in the announcement, this vaccine is licensed in the EU for protection against the blessing, but it has also been found to protect against the blessing of monkeys, so some Member States have already adapted their licences for this purpose.
The agenda for Tuesday's meeting of EU health ministers includes the European Health Data Space and the EU's global health strategy.
In addition, the French Presidency will brief the Council on progress on the draft regulation on cross-border health threats and Ms Kyriakidou will update the Council on the implementation of the medical devices regulations, as well as on the health and humanitarian situation in Ukraine and in relation to refugees from the country.
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